Curriculum Vitae

 

He has has written many project proposals and developed project appraisals using Sustainable Rural Livelihoods analysis and is also well versed in the Making Markets work for the Poor approach (M4P). He has organised and carried out a number of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) workshops; most recently in Turkey to analyse the current status of organic agriculture and opportunities to develop new organic projects for the inception report of the EU project, Organic Farming for Turkey. In Bangladesh during 2010 he devised a new approach to value chain analysis with regard to existing and new value chain activities to highlight the most effective interventions.

 

Over the last 5-10 years he has advised upon and managed the certification processes in relation to organic standards, fair trade, integrated crop management and wild collected certification schemes in many countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, Turkey, Romania, Ghana and Malawi. He has wide experience in managing projects working on a diverse range of value chains such as such as charcoal production, resin from pine trees, fibre crops, essential oil extraction , medicinal plants, mushroom production, honey production, biomass and energy crops. His business administration experience is supported by a Certificate in Management which he gained in 1994 in the UK and more recently by attending training in Policy, Programmes and Project management run by Crown Agents in Dubai (2009) and Leadership in Development run by CINFO in Switzerland (2011).  In Africa he has worked in Malawi in particular to help create the IFOAM accredited organic standards for the country in collaboration with the Malawi Bureau of Standards (making use of the East Africa standard used in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania)

 

Over the last 2-3 years he has managed a large food security project in Cambodia and has also been advising the Nepal Swiss Community Forestry Project (NSCFP) based in Kathmandu where he linked income generation activities with cross cutting themes of governance and gender equality. He was working directly with Community Forestry Users Groups (CFUGs) to increase their income from timber and non timber products. He has written a number of papers on this and issues surrounding regulatory constraints to economic development in the forestry sector in Nepal (see below). He worked as income generation specialist for 4 years for the Partnership for Rehabilitation project based at a leprosy hospital, working with those disabled by leprosy, providing practical training courses in agriculture. He followed this up with the paper Perspectives on disability, technology and poverty.

 

Some of the skills brought by the consultant arise out of experience working on projects funded by DFID, SDC, World Bank, USAID, EBRD, ADB and the EU in countries such as Malawi, Liberia, Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Kosovo, Turkey and Romania.

 

BCCB International Expertise Award 2005

I was awarded in November in the Individual Consultant section ( see photo and http://www.bccb.org.uk). I am experienced as a consultant in agronomy and in lecturing/mentoring with a focus on agricultural economic development, practical income generation skills, and marketing. I am educated to Masters level in Agricultural Development, specializing in policy analysis, community development and agricultural economics and my first degree was in Crop Protection. This blog site is designed to keep you up to date with my recent activities. Please see in "my profile" section the contact for more information to be found in my website. Please feel free to leave comments.